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Internet giant Google celebrated the 107th birthday of American marine biologist and author Rachel Louise Carson with a doodle that sees her standing near a river with a pair of binoculars around her neck and a notebook in her hand. Born on 27th May, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson is famous for advancing the global environment movement through her writings.
From early childhood, she showed great passion for Mother Nature and the environment and spent a lot of time exploring the forests and streams around her home. Later in her life, she was deeply disturbed by the use of synthetic chemical pesticides after World War II which brought her to loggerheads with the chemical industry lobby but she didn't stop writing about the ill-effects of chemicals and pesticides on the environment. She wrote a book, Silent Spring in 1956, and called for a change in the way mankind viewed the natural world. She died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer.
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